08-01-2007, 12:10 AM
Nearly 20 different organizations and agencies signed an agreement yesterday pledging to work together to provide recreational shooting opportunities along Colorado's Front Range.
The U. S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Wildlife Federation, National Wild Turkey Federation, Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW), Colorado State Parks and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, are just some of the organizations that agreed to work together in order to provide safe and sustainable recreational shooting opportunities.
"It is great to see such a diverse group of organizations come together in an effort to provide opportunities that the public is requesting," said Glenn Casamassa, forest supervisor for the Arapaho, Roosevelt National Forests and the Pawnee National Grassland for the U.S. Forest Service. "We are all working toward a single goal and now we need ideas and we need to take action."
The objectives of this partnership are to:
- identify and assess potentially appropriate federal, state and private locations for safe shooting range areas that are environmentally and economically self-sustaining.
- develop local partnerships to construct, improve and manage a wide range of sport shooting opportunities.
- establish on-going communication, education and ethics programs on safe and environmentally sound sport shooting opportunities for all ages.
A copy of the MOU and a list of signers will be available on the DOW Web site in the near future.
Additional Information: Please contact Tyler Baskfield for an electronic copy of the MOU and/or photos of the signing.
For more information about Division of Wildlife go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us.
The U. S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Wildlife Federation, National Wild Turkey Federation, Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW), Colorado State Parks and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, are just some of the organizations that agreed to work together in order to provide safe and sustainable recreational shooting opportunities.
"It is great to see such a diverse group of organizations come together in an effort to provide opportunities that the public is requesting," said Glenn Casamassa, forest supervisor for the Arapaho, Roosevelt National Forests and the Pawnee National Grassland for the U.S. Forest Service. "We are all working toward a single goal and now we need ideas and we need to take action."
The objectives of this partnership are to:
- identify and assess potentially appropriate federal, state and private locations for safe shooting range areas that are environmentally and economically self-sustaining.
- develop local partnerships to construct, improve and manage a wide range of sport shooting opportunities.
- establish on-going communication, education and ethics programs on safe and environmentally sound sport shooting opportunities for all ages.
A copy of the MOU and a list of signers will be available on the DOW Web site in the near future.
Additional Information: Please contact Tyler Baskfield for an electronic copy of the MOU and/or photos of the signing.
For more information about Division of Wildlife go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us.